Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-30
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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Clarence A. Schultz, Of Knoxville, has re-
seived his appointment as a navel cadet.
There are several cases Of diphthcria at
LYONS and the disease appears to be spread
ing.
Calamity Weller will sue Hon. w. II. Cham
bcrlain for $500 for campaign work done last
fall.
II. A. Burrell has been editor and proprie-
tor OF the Washington Press for twenty-onc
years.
Gilmore and his famous band will give.a
May ist.
The new train put on between Waterloo
and Dubuque is called the "Illinois Central
Slipper"
The first annual meeting OF the Carroll
Driving association will be held August s3,
"a and rs.
Sac City people are having trouble to Sc
cure a sufficient supply Of water for their
watcr.woIks.
Boone has enlarged It's city limits so as to
take In the town Of Boonsboro, creating an
additional ward.
Des Moines capitalists have put $4,000 In a
base ball clnb and fixed up the finest grounds
west of Chicago.
The factory Of the Red Oak Cart and Buggy
company burned on the 10Th inst, involving
a loss OF about | 10000.
A forty.Gcre tract, located three miles from
| the court house at Des Moines, was sold on
Wednesday for SIC, 900.
Tha Council ri, r. Nourarail a. ~ have an
Omaha department and an Omaha Off e,
managed by H.. n. McGrew.
The business men of KrokuE are holding
public meetings at which the question of
maeadam zpd roads is discussed
The corner. stone OF the new Catholic
cathedral at Council Bluffs will be laid next
Sunday, Bishop Coz grove officiating.
Parties with a view Of establishing a glass
IA tory have been making an examination of
the sand in the vicinity of Fort Dodge.
Dubuque Is in mourning. Not a single
theatrical troupe has visited that city since
the Interstate commerce law went into effect
The new water. works at Clarinda were
fully tested last Saturday, and were a sue
cess. The supply Is taken from thirty two
wells.
Twenty new members were added TO the
Christian church at Charlton last Sunday as
a result of a recent revival held at that
place.
The ~artesian well water At Marengo has
been analysed ana found to contain mineral
quantities Of great power, 1t contains SINH
lar properties 10 the water Of Colfax Spring.
Robert Stransberry and son Thomas were
chopping on the came log near Birmingham
the other day, when the fathers AK few Off
the helve and cut a cash five inches deep IN
the sons foot.
p. D.. Fuller, an old crippled soldier Of
Spirit Lake, has received notice from the gov
eminent of an allowance Of 81, 900 back pen
sion and an increase Of his regular pension
TO S72 a month.
The manufacturers and wholesale shippers
Of Davenport have joined with the cities on
the other side OF the river into al association
for mutual benefit and u permanent organize
ton viii be effected ut once.
Two hundred men and boys have In Van
Buren, county engaged In a grand wolf hunt
" stW 'hyo oSp AhNy ANNhN'N wv 'hNiN
over about two and a half townships, mar
rowed it down and killed one wolf.
DR., F. Goetsch, a former resident OF Cres
ton, has been convicted Of the crime OF
bigamy at Vinton, Benton county, and SEN
fenced TO pay a fine of 81 900 and serve two
years la the penitentiary at Anamosa.
Gov. Larrabee has appointed Peter Hopley,
OF Cass county; William NJ. Springer, OF Ma
haska, and w. H. J.rian, Of Johnson, com.
mlssioners to serve to the best interests oi
American horse buyers in France.
Mary Jedlecke, q thirteen-year old girl oil
Omaha, has been missing for some days. Her
parents are greatly alarmed over her disap.
pearance, tie belief being uppermost that ske
has been enticed into q house Of prostitution
The father Of the MATHEWS boy, who was
killed by a railroad accident at Red Oak re.
Gently, has settled with the railroad company,
receiving a, 600 and 200 miles Of transporta.
ton. The total expense to the company viii
be about IS, 200.
Lyman Wilcox, an Ida county farmer, Is
the owner Of a COW which has probably nc
equal on the face OF the earth. The COW Il
scarcely five years old and has FIVE living
calves, four Of which have been born inside
OF eleven months.
Henry McComas, who had his skull frac-
tnred on Monday by a falling board in a
Burlington lumber yard, died a few hours
after the accident. The mother of the de-
ceased, now quite advanced in years, has been
in feeble health for some time past. The
blow incident TO the death Of her son has
completely Frustrated her, and her recovery
is doubtful.
w. J. Perkins, wife and daughter, OF Pleas
ant Grove, Des Moines county, are in jail at
Burlington awaiting trial upon the charge OF
infantictde. The daughter became the mother
OF an i~ilegitimate child, and, assisted by her
parents, killed 1t and secretly buried It
Mrs. Emma Fort, a sister of Mrs. Perkins,
furnished the information which led to the
arrest.
Working plans Of the Nebraska City water
works have been received and the construc.
ton will begin within ten days. The pumping
station, a handsome two-story building. will
he equipped with two direct acting engines,
with a capacity OF ., 0G0, 600 gallons OF water a
day. The stand pipe will be 1919 feet In